Getting help and advice from Mencap - Easy Read
Getting help and advice from Mencap

Mencap have a lot of advice and information for, and about, people with learning disability.

People are all different so we offer different ways for you to find the information you are looking for.

How to find information and advice from Mencap
To find information you can:
- Use our Advice and information hub
- Visit each page of our advice topics
- Contact our free helpline service by email or by phone
- Read our most popular advice pages
- Read our latest advice pages.
The Advice and information hub
At the top of our main advice and support page, there is a Advice and information hub.
The Advice and information hub is a tool with buttons that help you find information.

To use the Advice and Information hub you click on the button that best describes you, or the information that you are looking for.
Our advice topics
On the advice and support page, you can also find a section called Our advice topics.
This has lots of links to pages that hold information and advice about different topics.

A topic is someone or something that has been written or talked about.
Some of the links on our advice topics section go to pages about:
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Education
Education is when you learn things. When you fill in a form to get a job, education means you write where you went to school, college or university.
- Money and benefits
- Health
- Housing
- Social care
- Safety
- Travel
- Work and skills.

Our free helpline service
If you're confused or can't find what you're looking for you can contact our free learning disability help line.

Our free helpline service offers advice and support for people with a learning disability, and their families and carers.
To find out how to contact the helpline, read our Learning Disability Helpline Easy Read page.
Our most popular advice pages
Near the bottom of our advice and support page, there is a section about popular content.
Popular content is the information and advice that most people want to find out about.

The popular content section has lots of buttons.
If you click a button it will take you to more information about the topic that is written on it.
There are two other areas of advice in the popular content section:
- Information for parents
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Easy Read
Easy Read is a way of making written information easier to understand. Pictures are usually added next to the writing. information.
You just click on the headings that say For parents or Easy read information to buttons to that kind of information.
Latest advice pages
At the bottom of the advice and support page is a section showing Mencap's latest advice content.
Content means things like writing, photos and artwork.
The latest advice content section shows the newest 3 pages of advice information that Mencap have made.
The 3 pages shown in this section change as more new pages are made.